Trebizond
Americannoun
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a medieval empire in northeastern Asia Minor 1204–1461.
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Official Name Trabzon. a seaport in northeastern Turkey, on the Black Sea: an ancient Greek colony; capital of the medieval empire of Trebizond.
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The fall of Trebizond to the Ottomans in 1461 led to the city becoming majority Muslim.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
In the Pontus, the language of the first Greek colonizers of Trebizond was the Ionic Greek of Sinope.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
In 1461, he sent the Ottoman fleet to conquer Trebizond, an offshoot of the Byzantine Empire and an important trading center on the Black Sea.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Greek-speakers lived in hundreds of different villages, towns and cities, from Spain to Libya and the Nile Delta, from the freezing river Don in the northeastern corner of the Black Sea to Trebizond.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2015
In the meantime young Perion had arrived with his strange fellow-wanderers in the kingdom of Trebizond, which, as we are all aware, is readily accessible from the Irish coast.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
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